February 4, 2010
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The Daily News
1 I'm thoroughly convinced that gremlins exist, and that they take stuff and hide it on us on a daily basis.
2 Yesterday morning I looked around for the notes I took on how to administer the CAHSEE test, the California High School Exit Examination. I thought I had put all the notes on this small piece of paper, but that it was in a binder. During the testing, I kept looking for the binder but couldn't find it anywhere.
3 As soon as the test was completed I found the binder, but by then I succeeded in screwing up in at least three different places. None of it interrupted the test itself, just roll sheets and things.
4 Incidentally, when I DID find the binder, the notes weren't in there anyway.
5 They were on the back of an ORANGE piece of paper that was next to my right index finger for the past two days, about a millimeter away the entire time I proctored.
6 Ah, ya gotta love it.
7 Moving on, Part 1: I got to sleep last night at around 10, and then awakened at 3 a.m. as per usual, and had trouble falling back to sleep. Fortunately, when I did get back to sleep, my dog Phoebe didn't wake me up at her usual 4:20 a.m.
8 She is a creature of habit, and LOVES barking in this high-twanged pitch every morning at 4:20.
9 I've sort of been thinking of naming her "4:20" because of that.
10 What.
11 OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhIdidntknowthat.
12 M'bad.
13 AnywayZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz...
14 In the course of events that followed yesterday, we had weird schedules, but I still have this amazingly wonderful prep period right before lunch, and just works out that I get a lengthy lunch period each day.
15 Yesterday I didn't leave campus, so had a lotta time to grade papers, take care of business, and all sorts of other officious stuff.
16 So I took a nap instead.
17 Yep. Right smack in the middle of the day, like the Italians.
18 Best thing I've done in quite some time! I awakened with the bell signaling the start of my sixth-period English 1A class. I have never BEEN that alert midday, and we had a blast playing Pictionary and doing skits with vocabulary.
19 I don't want to get in the habit of sleeping on the job midday, but yesterday was like, yeah!
20 Being absolutely rested at 2 p.m. made me want to run to the gym and swim 20000 laps!
21 I didn't, but sure FELT like it. I was a pistol!
22 Moving on, Part the Second: Speaking of which, the other day, some gremlin stole my belt. Somebody told me I should always have a couple of belts at work, but I never listened. <groan>
23 This was horrifying, because the only belt I had left was one that didn't fit me, and had no chance of fitting me three months ago. I moaned and groaned, but went ahead and put it on.
24 To my amazement, it fit with room to spare! I hadn't really been paying attention to the fact that while working out, I might lose weight. I was more interested in how my body was reacting and how the muscles seem to want workouts now.
25 Turns out I have gone down two sizes since November. My goal was four in six months, or a loss of 40 pounds, which seemed at the time huge, and now seems within reach.
26 I did stop swimming for a while, and switched to using the elliptical, but it was a reasonably easy switch. The reason I stopped the swimming was 'cuz the only hair I have kept turning red! I had to color my hair and use creme rinses to get it back to normal.
27 I know, I know! Vanity, vanity, all is vanity!
28 Not really. I've often said that at my age, I no longer want to look good; I just want to avoid looking bad.
29 AnywayZ, the second I got home with an entire day spent in a much smaller belt, I saw my other belt sitting on the end table of my couch. The house was pretty clean, but somehow in the rushing about trying to get dressed, something took it and hid it on me, I swear to you.
30 Nah, I really don't believe in gremlins and all, but still...stuff always seems NOT to be there when I'm in a rush, and I've almost learned to relax my shoulders about all of it, knowing full well that as soon as something is done, whatever I needed will surface almost immediately.
31 So it's Thursday already.
32 In one week, we get another week off. I'm telling you. When we returned from Christmas, we prepared for finals, then HAD finals, which had three minimum days, followed by a weekend with two days off, and a return on a minimum day. We had a reasonably normal week, and then this week, which had two days of 35-minute classes. I'm trying to get Romeo and Juliet going, but it seems that we need a good, solid month of normal schedules to really get that one rolling.
33 Ah, well. I'm teaching all these Greek word roots right now, so the students are enjoying learning about phobias and things. The lessons have been really fun and cartoony, so at least we're enjoying the ride.
34 That's about it here on the home front. Nothing sensational, but then no news is always good news.
35 Hope you enjoy your day. We have a Super Bowl weekend coming up, so get a helmet.
36 That's it.
37 Keep fighting. If I can do it, you can do it.
38 Peace.
~H~
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